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Go round in woman’s garment
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skirt
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Word definitions for skirt in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women informal terms for a (young) woman [syn: dame , doll , wench , chick , bird ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skirt \Skirt\, n. [OE. skyrt, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. skyrta a shirt, Sw. sk["o]rt a skirt, skjorta a shirt. See Shirt .] The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a shirt/skirt/coat etc button ▪ Is this your coat button? pencil skirt skirting board COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE black ▪ Loretta picked up a straight black skirt from the bed and stepped into it. ▪ Her black ...
Usage examples of skirt.
The small bustle at the back of her gown caused the bronze-and-red-striped skirts of the dress to sway in an elegant, enticing manner that Ambrose was certain he could have studied for hours.
Caira would have her skirt sewn to show petticoats to the middle of her thigh or higher had Mistress Anan allowed it, but the innkeeper looked after her serving women almost as closely as she did her daughters.
Feet pounded in the hallway, and Mistress Anan pushed Nerim firmly out of her way and raised her skirts to step around the corpse on the floor.
Janice, camouflaging her mood in a gay and festive ruffly-sleeved peasant blouse and evening skirt with flower applique, was in the kitchen.
She wore a sort of arty get-up of multi-coloured shirt, skirt with fringed hem and pocket, low-heeled shoes, and wooden beads.
Leave the Autostrada del Sole at Firenze Est, cross the Arno by the first possible bridge, and head north toward Fiesole, skirting the inner city.
This stairway forked at the top, a small flight leading to the door of an entrance into the cave dwelling, while two or three steps branched outward to a ledge skirting the stone balustrade of the balcony.
He gave her a moment to settle her heavy skirts, though at best they bared her legs well above her soft, knee-high boots, then heeled the dapple to a canter.
It was late afternoon of a chill October day when the barque skirted the tumbled rocks of Roscoff and, with her bulwarks and rigging studded thick with sea-weary sailors, ran close-hauled for the high-banked estuary at the end of which lies Morlaix.
In the past they used to skirt as closely as possible -- keeping in mind the practices of Soviet censorship -- the admissible limits of belletristic creativity.
Her half-turned, hand-on-hip position also showed the curve of the hip-hugging black skirt and the beruffled blouse, sheer black like the slightly laddered stocking.
She was sure the beturbaned matrons would have turned their backs on her or pulled their skirts aside if she passed their way in the park.
Not for the first time, she wished she did not have to wear the silly thingbut she was not the kind of wild and rebellious woman who would shed her skirts and corsets for a vest and bloomers, and stride off to march in a suffragette parade.
She was wearing a black PVC mini skirt, white high heels and a red blouson jacket.
On the plane to Dublin I sit next to an old woman wearing a blue bouse and a black velvet skirt.